If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
Time to download Virtualbox
Is Virtualbox still considered the go-to VM program? I haven’t been keeping up.
Very much no
Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows
Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.
These days I’m mostly using docker containers but all my docker containers as well as my hosts are flavors of Linux so YMMV.
I recommend using a kernel virtual machine.
KVM comes with the Linux kernel.
If you want to set it up manually, you’ll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called “gnome boxes”), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
KVM is just the hypervisor, not the whole package.
Why?
So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.